Synopses & Reviews
You can learn it and live it with AN INVITATION TO HEALTH: BRIEF, Fifth Edition, the vivid and fascinating text that introduces you to research, information, and recommendations related to health and healthy lifestyles. Full of visual spark and written to encourage behavior change, this text's clear and engaging writing style, addresses the issues related to health and wellness that affect college students now as well as the issues that you'll face in their future. You'll explore a broad range of topics, research, and examples that resonate with college life, and you'll learn the importance of changing poor behaviors-and how to go about changing those behaviors for good. With AN INVITATION TO HEALTH and its practical information that you can use now, you'll quickly learn to assess and change your own behaviors and apply your new knowledge to your life.
Synopsis
Health Care Professionals; Dieticians; Nurses.
About the Author
Dianne Hales is a successful health, fitness, and wellness author of several higher-education textbooks, including AN INVITATION TO HEALTH, AN INVITATION TO HEALTH: BRIEF, AN INVITATION TO WELLNESS, and AN INVITATION TO PERSONAL CHANGE (coming in 2008), all with Cengage/Wadsworth. An accomplished journalist and trade author, she also has published JUST LIKE A WOMAN (Bantam, 2000); CARING FOR THE MIND (Bantam, 1996); THE MIND MOOD PILL BOOK (Bantam, 2001); and THINK THIN, BE THIN (Broadway, 2005). In addition, she is a contributing editor to PARADE magazine and has written for many national magazines. Hales's success is due in large part to her extensive research into the latest developments in health, fitness, and wellness. Her engaging writing style, vivid examples, and creative pedagogy are highly effective in capturing and keeping students' interest. In her role as a journalist, Hales interviews leading health, fitness, and wellness researchers/experts and incorporates their insights into her textbooks. She is one of the few journalists to be honored with national awards for excellence in writing by both the American Psychiatric Association and the American Psychological Association. Her writing awards include an EMMA (Exceptional Media Merit Award) for health reporting from the National Women's Political Caucus and Radcliffe College.
Table of Contents
1. An Invitation to Healthy Change. 2. Psychological Health. 3. Personal Stress Management. 4. The Joy of Fitness. 5. Personal Nutrition. 6. Taking Control of Your Weight. 7. Communication and Sexuality. 8. Reproductive Choices. 9. Preventing Infectious Diseases. 10. Lowering Your Risk of Major Diseases. 11. Drug Use, Misuse, and Abuse. 12. Alcohol and Tobacco Use, Misuse, and Abuse. 13. Protecting Yourself, Your Rights, and Your Health. 14. Working Toward a Healthy Environment. Customizable option: Chapter 15: A Lifetime of Health